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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Mo Rocca is planted firmly in this territory.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Show announcer and judge Carl Kassel

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In 2006 [[The Simpsons|Harry Shearer]] did the "Not My Job" segment, which that week had questions about the infamous 1980 variety show ''[[Pink Lady and Jeff]]''. The research staff failed to realize that Shearer is heavy into pop culture, especially '''bad''' pop culture, and had been part of a PL&J parody sketch on ''[[Saturday Night Live]].'' (Of course, no one admits to watching SNL in 1980...) It made for the shortest [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6507112 "Not My Job" clean sweep in the show's history].

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In 2006 [[The Simpsons (animation)|Harry Shearer]] did the "Not My Job" segment, which that week had questions about the infamous 1980 variety show ''[[Pink Lady and Jeff]]''. The research staff failed to realize that Shearer is heavy into pop culture, especially '''bad''' pop culture, and had been part of a PL&J parody sketch on ''[[Saturday Night Live]].'' (Of course, no one admits to watching SNL in 1980...) It made for the shortest [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6507112 "Not My Job" clean sweep in the show's history].

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The show started in January 1998, but was relaunched in May of that year with several changes: Peter Sagal took over hosting from Dan Coffey, they introduced the "Not My Job!" segment with guests, and so forth. Some other differences from the early years:

** For quite some time, scores in the Not My Job round were given nicknames after the first person to achieve that score. For instance, a Stamberg (named after the first guest), meant no points were scored.

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* [[Self-Deprecation]]: "Visit [http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/ our blog] which has been called 'sophomoric', 'a threat to NPR's integrity', and 'reason to review our intern hiring process.'"

** When teenage fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson played Not My Job she was asked questions about "stuff old people like". One of them was about NPR.

* [[Shout-Out]]: One week after their somewhat unflattering portrayal of fans of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''<ref>[[Fox News Channel]]'s ''Red Eye'' segment the same week was actually less mean, if also pretty boring.</ref>, they brought on a fan and former ''Wait, Wait'' intern for a brief interview, and used the show as the basis for that week's "Not My Job" questions... for guest contestant [[Bill Clinton]] (who got them all right, but they weren't very hard either).

* [[Shout-Out]]: One week after their somewhat unflattering portrayal of fans of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'',<ref>[[Fox News Channel]]'s ''Red Eye'' segment the same week was actually less mean, if also pretty boring.</ref> they brought on a fan and former ''Wait, Wait'' intern for a brief interview, and used the show as the basis for that week's "Not My Job" questions... for guest contestant [[Bill Clinton]] (who got them all right, but they weren't very hard either).

* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Averted, ~~naturally -- this~~ ''is'' NPR, after all.

* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Averted, naturally—this ''is'' NPR, after all.

* [[Sound to Screen Adaptation]]: [[CBS]] ordered a pilot for a television version.

** In a nod to the format's British origins, in December 2011 ''Wait Wait'' aired a version of the show on BBC America as a Christmas special, with one British panelist (presenter and comedian Nick Hancock) and a British Not My Job guest ([[Neil Gaiman]]). The format was altered to eliminate the audience call-in segments, since it was being taped in advance, so the panel got more questions and Carl's return-from-commercial intros for Peter were beefed up with jokes. A not-quite-identical audio version ran in the weekly slot on NPR.

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